Setup:
I'm running 14.10 Desktop x64 on an E8500.
It's running kernel 3.19 from here, but also had similar problems with earlier kernels.
The FS is btrfs.
I'm using several CIFS mounts.
I have WINE ...

lately I have been asked (only a single time) to type my administrator password in order to shut down my system. Before that, I was unable to disable networking (the buttons for enable/disable wifi ...

I have found that when I click the shutdown button when logged into a normal user account that once it has terminated all running processes and it says something about a modem shutting down, it can ...

In Precise, when I clicked on "Shut Down" from the gear menu, it would shut things down in an orderly manner. E.g. it would tell processes to shut down, and would let me know if e.g. emacs was still ...

I'm making a computer like an arcade machine with an academic game. I'm using Xsession to replace the desktop by an application. It's working fine. But when I go out from the game it returns to the ...

Lately, my ubuntu 12.04 has been acting out of the ordinary. I have found that my entire internet menu has disappeared. Now, ubuntu can't access wifi anymore. I tried to restart so that maybe ubuntu ...

I have some problems with both the audio/speaker and the power options to shutdown.
I do not have shutdown option and my audio not coming out again on the kubuntu system. I read that this file may be ...

I'm trying to fix the same type of problem reported in Ubuntu 14.04 hangs on shutdown / reboot D630 but for a Dell XPS M1330 laptop that has Ubuntu 14.10 Desktop installed on it. Reboot or shutdown ...

I boot Ubuntu 14.04 LTS from an external hard disk into my laptop. The drive looses power haphazardly during shutdown with a sound of power being cut off! I get errors while booting again and have to ...

I have enabled hibernate for successfully (appear on menu ).but i can't restart or shutdown .. my screen still have loading ubuntu logo when restart or shutdown .
i have 6GB for Ram and 12GB for Swap ...

For a while now, in both Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10, my laptop shuts down suddenly and unexpectedly. This only happened when the computer was on battery power, and only when the power seemed to get within ...

I have a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 in which the "Shutdown" and "Restart" button's bring up the "Shutdown/Restart" dialog but upon clicking one of these options, does nothing. By nothing I mean, ...

I'm not the administrator, so I'm not in the sudo list. How can I shut down the computer from command line without sudo?
As I can shut down the computer from GUI, I must be able to get the privilege ...

when I try to remotely shutdown with teamviewer my Ubuntu 14:04 pc turns off uncompletely because of the teamviewer team advice appear on the desktop (wine supported).
I solved by running the coomand ...

Whenever my laptop shuts down due to lack of power (running out of battery or being unplugged from the mains) I am asked whether I should report a problem, as if the system had crashed.
My question ...

I've a problem after my new install of Ubuntu. I successed to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 8.1 (in legacy mode/non UEFI), but I've a problem. When I'm in Ubuntu, my pc shut down like if it had a ...

When ever I reboot Ubuntu (not shutdown but reboot), my computer hangs. It hangs before grub even comes in to go to Ubuntu. I then have to manually do a hard shutdown and power it back on and it boots ...

I would like to know which is the proper sudo terminal command to shutdown the computer gradually, saving everything, closing everything in the right order, and basically doing everything the computer ...

I have a web server under apache2 and php5. I want to shutdown a computer using web server but to shutdown the computer a current user should be 'root' user because command for the turning off of PC ...

after I try to start my service (I make a service that I stored in init.d) it seems the service loop that make my ubuntu hangs, well, I try to ctrl+alt+del e i s u b n, but my display still frezze. ...

I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my Intel NUC DN2820. And almost every night as I lie down to sleep I listen to music, and my NUC shuts down (On Windows). On Windows it has the easiest command ever in ...

I have a problem with a specific URL,when I connect to internet and go to http://www.aalaee.com/page?id=34 my laptop monitor turns off and I can t do anything with my laptop till I cut off the power ...

I just installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 on my new HP Envy laptop. Prior to this, Windows 8.1 was running fine without any problems. But now on Ubuntu, my laptop shuts down abruptly and when I try to restart, ...